Field Application Engineer / Technical Pre-Sales (Teradyne, San Jose, CA)
About The Position
The Field Product Specialist (FPS) connects customer challenges with Teradyne solutions to drive growth. You’ll partner with Sales, Marketing, Applications, and Engineering to shape proposals, influence product direction, and help customers succeed. You’ll bring hands-on test experience with emphasis on Mobile compute, RF and Power Management. You’ll support customers in California, and collaborate with factory engineering and marketing; targeted training is available for the right overall fit. You’ll join a technical presales team that values collaboration and growth, with support to deepen expertise and build the customer-facing skills that drive outcomes. Join a team where deep engineering work translates directly into customer impact—and where you can keep growing. Work on leading-edge test challenges with customers who are pushing the limits. Have a real voice—partner across Sales/Marketing/Engineering to shape solutions and influence direction. Get support to grow your customer-facing and presentation skills in a collaborative presales team.
Requirements
- BS+ in Electrical Engineering or related field
- 5–8+ years in SoC validation/test (e.g., test development, DFT, or test-enablement tools).
- Experience with leading-edge SoC ATE (Teradyne and/or competitor).
- Customer-first mindset; able to build relationships across customer and internal teams.
- Ownership mindset; collaborate, prioritize, and drive closure.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Experience with Silicon technology fundamentals and DFT
- Experience with ATE and System-Level Test
- Experience with Test program generation and debug
- Experience with Power Management test for devices used in Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial applications
- Experience with Manufacturing test
Nice To Haves
- Competitive benchmarking experience is a plus.
- Growth mindset and interest in customer-facing work.
- C#/.NET (helpful, not required)
Responsibilities
- Build trusted technical relationships with customer engineering teams.
- Identify opportunities, articulate value, and help drive wins.
- Coordinate cross-functional experts to design and deliver customer solutions.
- Provide customer-driven input on positioning and product/engineering roadmaps.
- Share feedback with factory and engineering to improve roadmap and execution.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- retirement savings plans
- life and disability insurance
- paid vacation & holidays
- tuition assistance programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
